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Spain awards apes legal rights
by jordan | July 3, 2008 at 09:33 am | 532 views | 6 comments
Spanish Parliament has approved a resolution to grant chimps, gorillas, and orangutans statutory rights previously reserved for their human cousins. Support for this action has crossed party lines and is expected to carry the proposal through to law within the year.
The laws will ban potentially harmful research, ape trading, profiting from apes, and using apes in performances. Zoos could still legally hold apes, but living conditions must be “optimal”.
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July 3, 2008 at 09:33 am by jordan, 532 views, 6 comments
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Comments (6)
at 14:54 on July 3rd, 2008
jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff. Its about time! Just hope that others may fallow!
at 19:47 on July 3rd, 2008
jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff. Yeah I took an archaeology class in university and you would not believe some of the conditions and things these apes go through.
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karinawhitmarshat 01:50 on July 4th, 2008
Taking pictures through glass can be challenging. I wanted to "get" inside and just "be" with them. I felt humbled by their features, particularly their fingers-- so like us. It was closing time and we were left by ourselves..finally no one around to get in the way of my pictures. I didn't use flash, I didn't want to. I figured they had enough all day from snap friendly kids. With a steady hand and the desire to capture their personalities I felt I did justice to these amazing creatures.
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at 07:45 on July 4th, 2008
Anyone interested in this story will be interested in a place called Monkey World in Dorset, England. It rescues apes from all around the world and rehabiltates them back to what they should be
at 19:53 on July 4th, 2008
See previous NP coverage here.
at 15:52 on July 13th, 2008
Great country!!! Spain ...jordan' i like this source, it's very interesting...
"Gorillas, one of nature's most misundertood animals"
Scientist Dian Fossey fought to protect these gentle giants from destructions, and why all gorillas must be protected from imminent extinction.
"Gorillas in the Mist" Movie: starring Sigourney Weaver playing the role of Fossey - is a portrait of determined woman who willing to do anything to save the mountain gorillas that she studies. Fossey's first hand account of her thirteen year experienced living and studying four gorilla families on the 14,000 foot Virunga volcanoes in Rwanda. ...Thanks!!!
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